flipper vs projection

flipper

noun
  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

projection

noun
  • An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions. 

  • The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something. 

  • A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation 

  • An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace. 

  • Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions. 

  • The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector. 

  • A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser. 

  • The image that a translucent object casts onto another object. 

  • Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out. 

  • A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object. 

  • A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components. 

  • The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle. 

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